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« Feel The Burn | Main | Practice Makes Perfect » August 22, 2007Use a Wide Angle Lens to Distort PerspectiveUse a wide or ultra wide angle lens to add some extra spark to an otherwise dull image. Using the widest lens or setting you have, move in close to your subject. You will notice that the perspective is distorted as the subject gets further away from you. Some subjects that this works very well on are those that have a leading line drawing your eye into a main focal point, such as a fence leading you to a barn. Because of the distortion in scale when using wide angle lenses, small objects in the front look relatively much larger than the large objects in distance.
Also, stop down to increase your depth of field to ensure that you have as much in focus as you can. In this image I used a 24mm lens and an aperture of f25 to put the entire fence in focus as well as the barn in the background. We can see that the front of the 3 1/2 foot fence occupies nearly 1/2 the height of the image but the 25 foot barn takes up less vertical space than the front of the fence. Until next time, happy shooting. Posted on August 22, 2007 08:26 AM | Permalink CommentsPost a commentTrackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: |
